Industry Cautiously Backs EU Market Reform Ambitions, But Warns Execution Risks Loom Large
A panel at A-Team’s Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 offered a broadly supportive but clear-eyed assessment of the EU’s Savings and Investment Union (SIU) package, welcoming the shift toward a competitiveness agenda but warning the reforms risk falling short without bolder action on post-trade interoperability, data quality and regulatory simplification. The session, “The Evolution of...
Date: 16 April 2026 Time: 9:00am ET / 2:00pm London / 3:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Unstructured data and text now accounts for the majority of information flowing through financial markets organisations, spanning research content, corporate disclosures, communications, alternative data, and internal documents. While AI has created new opportunities to extract signals, many firms are…
A-Team Group, organisers of the TradingTech Summits, are pleased to announce the inaugural ExchangeTech Summit London on May 14th 2026. This dedicated forum brings together operators of exchanges, alternative execution venues and digital asset platforms with the ecosystem of vendors driving the future of matching engines, surveillance and market access.
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a unique and practical guide to capital markets regulation, regulatory change, and the data and data management requirements of compliance across Europe, the UK, US and Asia-Pacific. This year’s edition lands at a moment of accelerating regulatory divergence and intensifying data focused supervision. Inside,…
The 16th annual A-Team Group Data Management Summit London gets underway tomorrow morning, with another high-level gathering of industry experts to look over the state of play in data management within capital markets. A full-day of panel discussions, debate and networking will take place as well as a slew of keynote addresses from some of...
For years, financial institutions have invested heavily in identity security, building layered controls around authentication, access management and threat detection. Yet regulators are increasingly focused on resilience – specifically what happens when those controls fail? The findings from Quest Software’s recent State of ITDR 2026: prevention and recovery research point to a clear conclusion: while...
A panel at A-Team’s Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 offered a broadly supportive but clear-eyed assessment of the EU’s Savings and Investment Union (SIU) package, welcoming the shift toward a competitiveness agenda but warning the reforms risk falling short without bolder action on post-trade interoperability, data quality and regulatory simplification. The session, “The Evolution of...
Can LLMs reliably do what financial analysts do? Compare peers, track firms over time, and spot what’s changed? A panel at the recent A-Team Group/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference New York explored the question, and new research from Goldman Sachs and Yale suggests the answer is more nuanced than the industry assumes. The panel session...
While 2025 saw its challenges, the year ended on a high for securities litigation in the US marketplace, raising the prospect of an expanded rebound in 2026. The latter part of the year saw four settlements that exceeded $200million in value in addition to a single, significant settlement reaching $740million, providing a late-year boost to...
The proliferation of electronic communications channels available to financial professionals and their clients has created a headache for compliance teams charged with mitigating against market abuse, insider trading and other illegal activities. In an era of heighted regulatory scrutiny, compliance teams are finding it challenging to put in place the appropriate systems and processes, particularly...
Structural change in Europe’s government bond and credit markets is now gaining momentum, as new entrants, with an emphasis on high-performance technology, are raising the bar in terms of technology and trading practices. The arrival of non-financial liquidity providers (NLPs) to the European arena represents the next phase in the electronification of European fixed-income markets,...
Shield has updated its archive platform with a set of enhancements aimed at addressing a long-standing operational problem for financial institutions: how to modernise legacy communications archives without introducing migration risk, increasing storage costs or weakening compliance controls. This latest release focuses on three areas – storage optimisation, large-scale migration and expanded governance – reflecting…
SmartTrade Technologies has launched smartTrade Agentic Copilot (STAC), a significant upgrade to its AI-enabled trading and payments ecosystem. The new system introduces an MCP-enabled Sovereign AI architecture that allows banks to deploy advanced agentic AI technology whilst maintaining strict security, compliance and latency requirements. Built on three core principles: full client segregation; guaranteed data privacy…
T-REX Network, a multi-chain orchestration layer for real-world assets (RWAs), has partnered with Zama to integrate Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) into the T-REX Ledger. This collaboration aims to resolve a primary barrier to institutional blockchain adoption: the lack of data privacy on public ledgers. By using Zama’s FHE technology, the T-REX Ledger will allow smart…
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., has entered into a collaboration with Securitize to advance the development of tokenised securities markets. Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Securitize has been named the first digital transfer agent eligible to mint blockchain-native securities for corporate and ETF issuers on the NYSE’s…
NetApp has launched its AI Data Engine platform to manage enterprise data for artificial intelligence. The software stack integrates with NVIDIA reference designs to create a unified metadata catalogue for global data estates. The system identifies and governs unstructured data by analysing file content in place to enrich metadata without moving files. “Despite massive investments…
Informatica has deepened its integration with Microsoft Fabric and launched a new Swiss data pod. The update provides general availability for the Intelligent Data Management Cloud to support Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring. This integration enables customers to synchronise data from over 300 enterprise sources into mirrored databases with one click. Embedding this support helps organisations…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has operationalised its approach to artificial intelligence (AI) governance in financial services, publishing a new AI Risk Management Toolkit developed through industry collaboration under Project MindForge. The initiative brings together 24 banks, insurers and capital markets firms, reflecting a coordinated effort to translate high-level AI principles into practical implementation…
Parameta Solutions, the Data & Analytics division of TP ICAP Group, has partnered with Surperformance to broaden global access to its EUR and USD Interest Rate Swap Indices through Zonebourse.com and Marketscreener.com. The indices provide daily snapshots of interest rate swap markets and are used by banks, insurers and asset managers for pricing, hedging, portfolio…
BPX, the UK FCA-authorised institutional venue for issuing, trading and lending traditional and tokenised alternative assets, has announced that Investec has become the first member of its digital securities marketplace. This milestone marks the beginning of institutional participation as BPX moves towards live market operations, with additional institutions progressing through onboarding. Investec will connect to…
Derive.xyz, the on-chain options exchange, has integrated with Haruko, a global provider of institutional digital assets technology. This partnership aims to strengthen risk and portfolio management capabilities for institutional clients by providing real-time insights into trading activity, portfolio positions and market exposure. Through the integration, Derive clients can now use Haruko’s platform to consolidate data…
GlobalBlock, part of GCEX Group, has launched its digital assets offering for UK clients, providing access to crypto services with institutional-grade support and robust controls. The company’s UK cryptoasset financial promotions have been approved by Archax, the regulated digital assets platform, under the FCA’s cryptoasset financial promotions regime. This approval complements GCEX Group’s existing licences,…
McKay Brothers and Quincy Data are launching new services connecting Illinois futures markets with major trading facilities in Sydney, Australia. The services link the CME in Aurora and ICE Futures in Chicago with Sydney’s Australian Liquidity Centre and Equinix SY5, which host ASX and Cboe Australia respectively. McKay Brothers will offer private transport capacity, while…
B3, the Brazilian marketplace operator, has completed the second phase of its new central securities depository (CSD) system, developed using VeriSafe technology from Vermiculus. This represents one of the largest CSD transformation projects globally, with Vermiculus and B3 delivering a major phase into production for the second consecutive year. The elastically scalable platform now supports…
S&P Global has updated its Capital IQ Pro platform with artificial intelligence capabilities and expanded datasets. The update integrates ProntoNLP sentiment analysis into document workflows and follows the acquisition of Drift AI to automate Excel-based financial modelling. The developments build upon the 2025 purchase of ProntoNLP to enhance the assessment of earnings call transcripts and…
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has created ICE Private Credit Intelligence to increase transparency in the private credit market. The platform establishes a data infrastructure layer for the US$40 trillion asset class by offering secure data sharing and standardised reference sets. Apollo serves as the anchor partner for the launch, which aims to provide data consistency similar…
OSTTRA, the global post-trade solutions provider, has announced four strategic appointments to its leadership and product teams. Nathan Ondyak joins as Chief Commercial Officer, Peter Altero as Chief Business Development Officer, Chris Licini as Buy-Side Strategic Relationship Manager, and Christian Kjaeldgaard as Product Design Director. All four individuals join from the London Stock Exchange Group…
BridgePort, an institutional coordination layer for crypto off-exchange settlement, has appointed Zane Suren as its Chief Revenue Officer. Suren will oversee the firm’s global revenue strategy, managing commercial architecture, pipeline development, and the expansion of the sales function as the network scales. Suren joins from Zodia Custody, the Standard Chartered-backed digital asset custodian, where he…
Veteran fintech executive Keith Todd has announced the launch of Sapphire Technology Group Ltd., a London-based firm designed to drive growth and profitability in global technology businesses. The company is built upon the “Sapphire Doctrine,” a repeatable framework of leadership principles developed by Todd over 30 years in the capital markets sector. This doctrine prioritises…
Finastra’s global head of data governance, Peter Vennel, has been elected vice president at data management professional group DAMA International. Vennel will serve a three-year term focusing on global strategy and member support for the association. The position involves chairing the Governance and Nominations Committee and participating in the Finance Committee to provide organisational oversight….
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has appointed Levent Mehmet as Managing Director for its Financial Markets business in the Asia Pacific region. Based in Singapore, Mehmet is responsible for overseeing the company’s regional strategy, sales operations, and client engagement. His leadership will cover established teams in Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, while also supporting the company’s…
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation has appointed Michaela Fleischer as its inaugural chief operating and financial officer. Fleischer previously served as COO at Finoa and held leadership positions at Deutsche Bank, N26, Holvi and Revolut. Based in Frankfurt am Main as managing director of GLEIF Germany, Fleischer reports to the chief executive and oversees…
SimCorp, the global financial technology firm, has appointed Debbie Townley as its new Chief People Officer, effective 1 March 2026. Reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer Peter Sanderson, Townley will oversee the company’s global People & Culture strategy. She joins the leadership team to support SimCorp’s current phase of organisational transformation. Townley succeeds Marlene Nyholm…
Global investment manager RegTech provider Funds-Axis has appointed Chris Machin as Chief Operating Officer, a move that signals a shift from build-phase momentum to operational scale. The London-based regulatory technology and investment compliance specialist is positioning itself for disciplined international growth, with Machin tasked to lead the operational architecture behind that expansion. The firm describes…
Katharine Braddick will succeed Sam Woods when his term concludes in June 2026 as the next Deputy Governor for Prudential Regulation and Chief Executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). The role carries direct responsibility for supervising banks, building societies, insurers and major investment firms. The role is also charged with shaping how prudential standards…
Broadridge Financial Solutions has announced the immediate appointment of Frank Troise as President of Global Capital Markets. Reporting to Tom Carey, President of Global Technology & Operations, Troise will join the company’s Executive Leadership Team. This leadership transition occurs as the industry experiences a significant convergence of trading, financing, and post-trade services across both traditional…
Liquidnet, the technology-driven agency execution specialist, has appointed Michael Gibbons as Global Head of Listed Derivatives Business Development. Joining from Morgan Stanley, where he spent 12 years leading electronic futures sales and coverage, Gibbons brings nearly two decades of experience in multi-asset execution. He has previously held senior roles at Goldman Sachs, focusing on electronic…
Following the rotational elections in December 2025, the Exchange Councils of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB) and Eurex Deutschland have held their constituent meetings to appoint leadership for the new three-year term. Both boards serve as supervisory bodies, responsible for appointing exchange management and overseeing the implementation of rules and regulations. The FWB Exchange Council…
Atlanta based regulatory solutions company OneTrust has appointed John Heyman as chief executive officer, marking a leadership transition as the company positions itself for its next phase of growth in data and AI governance. Founder Kabir Barday will remain involved in a strategic advisory capacity through his role on the board. The change follows what…
Genesis Global has made several executive leadership appointments aimed at integrating product strategy, technological innovation, and client delivery. Tej Sidhu, previously the Chief Technology Officer, has been named President and Chief Product Officer. In this expanded role, Sidhu will oversee go-to-market functions and product strategy, continuing his tenure on the Executive Committee and reporting directly…
Eurex Clearing AG is to appoint Laura Bayley to its Executive Board as Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 June 2026. Bayley transitions to the role from SIX Group, where she has served as Head of Clearing Services and CEO of SIX x-clear AG since 2022. Her appointment brings extensive leadership experience in financial market infrastructure,…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026. These awards are designed to recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.
Nominations in the much anticipated A-Team Innovation Awards 2026 are now CLOSED! These awards celebrate successful projects within financial institutions (both with vendor support and without) across the financial enterprise.
We are excited to announce that voting is now open in the 6th annual RegTech Insight Awards Europe. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.
